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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: [pval, f, df_num, df_den] = f_test_regression (y, X, R [, r])
- ##
- ## Performs an F test for the null hypothesis R * b = r in a classical
- ## normal regression model y = X * b + e.
- ##
- ## Under the null, the test statistic f follows an F distribution with
- ## df_num and df_den degrees of freedom; pval is the p-value (1 minus
- ## the CDF of this distribution at f) of the test.
- ##
- ## If not given explicitly, r = 0.
- ##
- ## If no output argument is given, the p-value is displayed.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Test linear hypotheses in linear regression model
-
- function [pval, f, df_num, df_den] = f_test_regression (y, X, R, r)
-
- if (nargin < 3 || nargin > 4)
- usage (["[pval, f, df_num, df_den] ", ...
- "= f_test_regression (y, X, R [, r])"]);
- endif
-
- [T, k] = size (X);
- if !( is_vector (y) && (length (y) == T) )
- error (["f_test_regression: ", ...
- "y must be a vector of length rows (X)."]);
- endif
- y = reshape (y, T, 1);
-
- [q, c_R ] = size (R);
- if (c_R != k)
- error (["f_test_regression: ", ...
- "R must have as many columns as X."]);
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 4)
- s_r = size (r);
- if ((min (s_r) != 1) || (max (s_r) != q))
- error (["f_test_regression: ", ...
- "r must be a vector of length rows (R)."]);
- endif
- r = reshape (r, q, 1);
- else
- r = zeros (q, 1);
- endif
-
- df_num = q;
- df_den = T - k;
-
- [b, v] = ols (y, X);
- diff = R * b - r;
- f = diff' * inv (R * inv (X' * X) * R') * diff / ( q * v );
- pval = 1 - f_cdf (f, df_num, df_den);
-
- if (nargout == 0)
- printf (" pval: %g\n", pval);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-